A SPECIAL presentation to a journalist who has covered the Cheshire Show for almost half a century was made at the annual meeting of the Cheshire Agricultural Society at Capesthorne Hall.

The recipient was Chronicle veteran Michael Arnold, who first reported on the county show in 1959, the year after he joined the staff of the paper at Chester.

Since then, he has covered virtually every one of the shows, first at Hooton Park, and later at Eaton Hall, Tatton Park, and recently at Tabley, with a special interest in the central cattle sections.